Last I heard Brazil had passed a bill replacing the unenforceable rainforest protection law with a new law selling out to development interests. Meanwhile, in Bolivia a controversial road won't be built. Meanwhile, in Washington and B.C. it still rains 400 days per year and the rainforest is doing fine. So by my count 2/3 of rainforests have been saved.

(Please note my count comes with a 50% statistical margin of error plus unknown systematic errors.)

Recycling didn't slow down deforestation in the slightest.

You're just helping them make even more money.

Clash City Farker: Dont worry. It grows back.

Still waiting for the worlds deserts to grow back into forests.

Nah, we finally realized that plowing over every inch of land in the US for strip malls and townhouses and then whining about clearing rain forest land was hypocritical.

We increased the productivity of crops over 70% since the early 1900's -- then paid farmers not to grow to keep the cost of food level.

We increased the amount of meat, developing faster growing, heavier animals and out came assorted tales of hormone injections giving prepubescent girls boobs too soon, cow farts wrecking the Ozone layer, Mad Cow disease and mysterious beef shortages. Then the cost of meat doubled and tripled.

We developed major changes in food plants -- and promptly rigged it so farmers could not harvest the seeds to reduce the cost of next years crops. Developers moved in buying up rich farmland and plunking down miles of homes, condos and buildings.

We selected a primary, universal food crop to make Ethanol fuel, ignoring all of the rest, and food prices jumped across the board. This increase and subsequent grain shortage also affected nations heavily dependent on our crop exports.

Plus we import major amounts of food from other nations, meaning in poor ones, there's less for the natives. The old Irish Potato famine philosophy: strip your farmers of everything edible, sell it for major profits and as the growers starve, kick them off your land.

With no real adequate programs in place in nations where the Rainforest flourishes, farmers tend to use the slash and burn method, which is good only for one or two seasons, then needs to be done again elsewhere. Plus, the local governments are capitalizing on the demand for rare woods, more development, oil drilling and facing expanding populations and choose not to worry about the vanishing forest.

Then you can't forget the thriving Poaching business and the nearly inevitable drug farms run by cartels.

When it comes to a poor nation listening to a rich nation biatch about them using up their vital Rainforest, the poor nation will note the rich nation's fat population and tons of luxury goods, all bought with MONEY, look at the money from exploiting the Rainforest, and tell the rich nation to go to hell.

Nope.

God subby. I'm not sure if you meant to be that funny, but Cola came out my nose.